I see nothing wrong with this. Supply and demand. Rich peeps demand, poor people supply. What's wrong with that?

Although even if I had the money and needed a kidney transplant, do I really wanna buy one from some poor schmuck living in Appalachia who's spent the last 20 years drinking that moonshine and sucking on her Pall Malls? Anyone who's been good to their body probably has a decent job and wouldn't sell it...

There will be a time in the not-so-distant future where people live in trailer park-type communities and grow "extra organs" for harvest and sale. These people will sit around all day playing their ps2's and watching soaps while nurturing an extra kidney or liver that was attached to them.

After a certain amount of time, the organ will be harvested and sold for transplants and the process will begin again. These surrogate organ donors will be paid according to the market value of the organ that they are raising -- which will more than pay for their lot rent and food.

I can't donate any organs, but I can don't stuff that makes organs (Hell you can make people with this stuff too!) Best of all it's FREE! All you have to do is get the stuff out of me... Think about it... It's a win win situation! HAHAHA

Dude this could open up a whole new way to make it rich... Body part price speculation markets. You could buy livers, kidneys and hearts at cheap prices speculating that they would be needed in the future. Have investment firms that gice you capital and then sell the body parts to sick people at a significant profit.

This would be great because I mean they are sick, and they are going to die with out your product... so you are guaranteed a buyer... well as long as there is still disease

I heard that one time, this guy, he woke up, and he was all groggy, and he was in a bathtub, in a stranger hotel, and the bathtub was full of ice, and his back and side were all sore, and he saw a note, and the note said, Call 911 if you want to live, and it turns out that someone stole his kidney, and sold it to a rich billionaire who had a butler named Jeeves. Jeeves' niece told my friend who told me. True story.

The number of kidneys available has been falling because safer roads have led to a steep decline in fatal accidents, one of the main sources of cadaver organs.

Fark those stupid safety measures! They're getting in the way of organ donation! Seriously though, I think this idea is LONG OVERDUE. I see nothing wrong with selling your body parts. It's YOUR body, not anyone else's body, and LEAST of all not the government's.

If someone really, really wanted to fix the organ donor problem, it would be easy. See, you have a big pool of people that don't bother to/won't donate their organs...as if they'll do them any good when they've croaked. These same people will gladly accept the organs of others, though, to save their hides (imagine that).

Sooooo, among the factors determining who gets an organ, you get extra preference if YOU have been a registered organ donor for the last three years. It's fair, it's cheap, and it would work. Karma factors in nicely here. You're willing to give your organs, you get a replacement before those who aren't.

Winos usually have excellent chloresterol, and if they don't get hepatitis from living in the gutter, can be prime specimens for heart and artery harvesting. My town's nearly out of them. Does anyone out there live in a city with a substantial "skid row"?